College of Fine and Applied Art (Khartoum)

In 1951, it was incorporated into the Khartoum Technical Institute that became the Sudan University of Science and Technology (SUST) in 1971, and the school was renamed College of Fine and Applied Art.

After the Sudanese Revolution of 2018/19, the college reformed its curriculum and teaching staff, and is contributing to social and political expressions of the country's artistic movements.

Jean-Pierre Greenlaw, a British art teacher, became the first director of this school and became an influential figure in the country's artistic scene.

[2][3] In 1951, the school was moved to the Khartoum Technical Institute, and in 1971, it became the College of Fine and Applied Art in the Sudan University of Science and Technology (SUST).

[5][6] After the country's independence in 1956, the first Sudanese artists trained at the school continued their studies in the United Kingdom, with some of them later becoming teachers at the college.

[21][22] As an expression of their participation in the ongoing protests against the military government since 2019, students of the college exhibited a memorial sculpture representing the slogans Freedom, Peace and Justice.

During the closing ceremony, professor Omer Mohamed Elhassan Darma paid tribute to the fighters and martyrs of the December revolution and said, "the students of the College of Fine and Applied Art played important roles through murals and wall drawings that reflected stories and details of the struggle of revolutionists".